Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Our physics and dosimetry facilities were vacated for COVID-19 patients’
Priya Saini, a medical physicist at SMS Medical College and Hospitals in Jaipur, describes her efforts to maintain a radiotherapy service in the midst of a pandemic
Read article: Celebrating Emmy Noether, Sameera Moussa, Caroline Bleeker, Toshiko Yuasa and other inspiring women in science
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Excitement grows over mysterious signal in dark-matter detector
Theorists publish five explanations for puzzling excess electron recoils in XENON1T
Read article: Searching for microfibres in the snow, differential equations make the world go round, Isaac Newton first edition found while house clearing
Read article: Raining on the parade of self-driving cars
Developing sensors that enable autonomous vehicles to cope with tough weather conditions is tricky – and the economics may be more challenging still
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: Lise Meitner
Disciplinary bias and a stew of other prejudices helped deny the physicist Lise Meitner a share of the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Read article: Nobel prize sizzle: building excitement in the run-up to the physics award
Reflecting on 14 years of Nobel coverage
Read article: D-Wave launches 5000 qubit system, solar-powered nanobeads could clean-up oil sands waste
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: Chien-Shiung Wu
Should Chien-Shiung Wu have shared the 1957 Nobel prize for her measurement of parity violation?
Read article: Online conferences, auxetic materials and a new kind of rocket engine: the October 2020 issue of Physics World is now out
The October 2020 issue of your favourite magazine examines the benefits of virtual meetings
